In a quite part of the Citadel Wards, in a small alley known only to the locals lies a studio. Here lives and works a photographer who boldly defies all contemporary holographic technologies, relying instead on ancient human devices based on crude mechanics and chemistry to capture his motives.

Now - be it by chance or by purpose - some of the greatest heroes of our time found their way into that studio to stand before the camera...

Bringing "classic", analogue b&w photography to the ME universe was the initial idea for the picture.

And since I really liked how it turned out, I decided to make it whole series of "photographies" that will probably feature not "only" Liara but other ME characters as well. At least I have quite a few ideas for some of them , I'd like to try out in the future...

The technical stuff

All pictures of this series are based on character models and textures extracted directly from Mass Effect 3's game files and modified by me where I deemed it necessary. Posing, lighting, rendering were done in 3dsMAX + V-Ray. Background, composing, postprocessing in PS.

I originally saw the profile shot you did and saw you had done more in the series, and I just wanted to say, on this piece in particular how nice it is to see such a tasteful and classic nude of Liara. It really works!The pose and lighting is amazing, really good job:]

I would honestly love to see you do a similar shoot with Aria, she has an amazing angular face that would really benefit from strong lighting like this!

Hmm, maybe that's because the original model in the game doesn't have nipples (nor genitalia for that matter)? 'Protect the children' and all that. And I think some fanfics have tried to built on that idea.

Certainly not an uninteresting thought, but the big question is: Why would Asari have breasts at all in that case?